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Re:Ask HN: What has happened to YC's residential development... by Entangled on Thursday June 22, 2017 @10:16AM (#14612372)
Ok, here is a cheap shot of a dream. Future cities like mega malls with a thousand shops facing inside and a thousand homes facing outside, one to one. Roads would be marbled floors and cars would be electric scooters with a basket enough to buy groceries around.

For those who like the outdoors, just get your off road vehicle and face the indomitable and untouched nature. No paved roads, no concrete, nothing outside these habitable malls interconnected by hyperloops. Of course there will be supply roads for trucks but they will be just like highways interconnecting mega farms to mega malls.

Nah, scratch that, there is nothing like a house in the suburbs with a huge yard and a barbecue.

Re:Ask HN: What has happened to YC's residential development... by hucker on Thursday June 22, 2017 @10:29AM (#14612458)
I could hardly imagine a worse dystopia.. If I somehow ended up as a dictator, my only decree would be to ban malls.
Re:Ask HN: What has happened to YC's residential development... by sushid on Thursday June 22, 2017 @07:23PM (#14616052)
You're just describing mega-malls they have in SE Asia. Singapore and Thailand have some of the biggest ones.
Re:Ask HN: What has happened to YC's residential development... by wyager on Thursday June 22, 2017 @11:57AM (#14613135)
Your dream is similar to that espoused by futurist filmmaker Samuel Hyde in his TEDx talk. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-yFhR1fKWG0
Re:Ask HN: What has happened to YC's residential development... by scottLobster on Thursday June 22, 2017 @12:28PM (#14613366)
So basically Disney's original vision for Epcot? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWgKEI7Tfa8
Re:Ask HN: What has happened to YC's residential development... by maxsilver on Thursday June 22, 2017 @11:15AM (#14612808)
I'm on board, but Urbanists would never let you build that. They already complain about regular old skywalks "destroying the urban fabric".
Re:Ask HN: What has happened to YC's residential development... by poloniculmov on Friday June 23, 2017 @07:10AM (#14618306)
In the "The Cave" by Jose Saramago there's something like that.
Re:Ask HN: What has happened to YC's residential development... by samstave on Thursday June 22, 2017 @11:31AM (#14612931)
Have you ever been to Singapore?

The massive underground mall-halls are sort of like this.